Night Shift Nurses !

I'm no nurse, but I work 5p-2a m-f. I count a day as when I'm awake. I've found the working this shift I can intermittent fast pretty easily. Most nights I eat at 8pm and do not eat again until 2-3pm the next day. Not advocating anything, just giving some insight to my day.

im not a nurse but i used to work 10pm to 6am.. i usually pre logged.

I work 1-2 nights a week as a RN working 12 hr shifts. On nights I work, I will eat my calories for that day during the day and save part of them for during the night to keep my total of 1200-1400 calories. Then when I wake up the next day after I working, my calorie amount starts over. I used to feel like after midnight, my new calorie day started and then I would be panicking that next day when waking up feeling like my calorie bank was slim. It was not good. I felt defeated. So this way, I feel better knowing that my calories even if eaten after midnight are still being used up from my day before work that I saved for at work no matter what time they're eaten. Does that make sense? I asked a similar question and posted a few months ago and got helpful responses. You may want to check that out too.

I'm not a nurse but a dispatcher so I work rotating 10 hours shifts of days (7am-5pm) evenings (5pm-3am) and nights (9pm-7am), and I just log meal one as breakfast, then a snack, meal 2 as lunch, then a snack, meal 3 as dinner, then pre/post workout or evening snack, regardless of whether breakie is at 645 am or 5 pm. Basically a 24 hour period as someone else mentioned, so that it aligns with my fitbit steps/calorie burn

elphie754 wrote: »

I am not a nurse, but rather a paramedic who strictly works night shifts (co-workers swear I am a vampire). I count from midnight to midnight, that way every "day" is identical in terms of hours (if I counted from wake time to sleep time my "day" hours would vary too much. I also do this because then it lines up with my 24hr burn via Fitbit.

I relabeled the meals to 12am-6am, 6am -12pm, 12pm-6pm and 6pm to 12am instead of breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack. I have followed that method for 18 months now and it has had some great results for me (almost 100lbs lost).

My days are labeled 12-4, 4-8, 8-12, 12-4,4-8 and 8-12 and I slap my food in whatever the appropriate time is whether I am working or not

I'm a nurse, work 7p-7a, and my "Monday", I stay up for 24 hours then sleep. I've found that trying to log in the hours I'm awake doesn't really work for me, because they vary depending on where I fall in my scheduled time, which is NEVER the same week to week. If I split days, have three in a row, etc., especially since I go back to a regular schedule on my days off, my time awake can be anywhere from 24 hours to 16 to whatever.

I log it basically at it appears on my MFP, so when it switches over at midnight, I start logging for the next day. Even when I switch back to my "normal" schedule and then to nights frequently, I do that, because it makes it easier for me to keep track of my calories if it just follows how I open the app. So everything for me is midnight to midnight, so that I can keep track of the calories in the 24 hour period more easily.

For labeling, I have mine "Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, vitamins, supplements", because I don't consider protein shakes a meal, and I have vitamins that I log, but obviously aren't a meal. I did try to break the day into chunks, but I only work 3-4 days a week, and on my days off, I don't eat like I do when I work or the same hours, so that didn't work well for me.